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Cambro-Ordovician Volcanic Rocks in Eastern Dawson Map-Area, Ogilvie Mountains, Yukon
Basalt and minor rhyolite flows and breccias in the northwestern extension of Selwyn Basin are stratigraphically above maroon argillite (Lower Cambrian Hyland Group) and beneath...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Sediment-hosted disseminated gold occurrence, northeast Mayo Lake area
Low to moderate levels of gold are widely distributed within a distinct member of the Mississippian Keno Hill Quartzite northeast of Mayo Lake, demonstrating characteristics of...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geology of Gravel Creek (105B/10) and Irvine Lake (105B/11) Map Areas,...
The Irvine Lake and Gravel lake map-areas (NTS 105B/10,11) lie within the northern Omineca Belt, west of the Tintina-Northern Rocky Mountain Trench (NRMT) fault. The eastern...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geology of Colorado Creek (115J/10), Selwyn River (115J/9) & Prospector...
The project area includes Colorado Creek (115J/10), Selwyn River (115J/9), and Prospector Mountain (115I/5). Most of the area is in the Dawson Range subdivision of the Yukon...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geology of Carcross (105D/2) and Part of Robinson (105D/7) Map Areas
Geology of the Carcross (105D/2) and part of the Robinson (105D/7) map areas, south of Whitehorse, Yukon, were mapped at 1:50,000 scale during the 1988 field season. The map...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Geological Map of Fairchild Lake Map Area (106C/13), Wernecke Mountains
Geological map (1:50,000 scale) of Fairchild Lake area, Wernecke Mountains, central Yukon (NTS 106C/13) including a geological cross section and mineral occurrences.Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Protected Areas in Canada
This report is a compilation of designated protected areas in each Canadian province and territory as of April 2001.Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
A brief glimpse into post-Soviet placer mining
The Ural mountain province of Russia is one of the richest and mineralogically diverse regions in the world, with world-class deposits of platinum and PGEs, gold, copper,...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
'Alpine-type' ultramafic rocks of the Kluane metamorphic assemblage,...
Mica-quartz schist and olivine serpentinites form the Kluane metamorphic assemblage, a 150-km-long belt that is wedged between the Yukon-Tanana Terrane and the Insular...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Age, geochemical and metallogenic investigations of Cretaceous intrusions in...
The geochronology and geochemistry of Cretaceous intrusions and associated mineralization in southeastern Yukon and southwestern NWT is the focus of a new research project. The...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
A note on preliminary bedrock mapping in the Fire Lake area
New geological mapping around the Fyre Lake Cu-Co-Au deposit in Yukon-Tanana Terrane, southeastern Yukon, has established the continuity of stratigraphic units from nearby Grass...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Application of Landsat TM thermal imagery to structural interpretations of...
The structure of the Tintina Fault Zone (TFZ) within the Tintina Trench in west-central Yukon is almost completely unknown, due largely to very poor exposure, and thick...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Age, geochemistry, paleotectonic setting and metallogeny of Late...
Late Triassic to Early Jurassic age (~220-185 Ma) intrusions comprise one of the most widespread and volumetrically significant plutonic suites in central and western Yukon, and...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
A summary report on the geology of the Brown-McDade gold-silver deposit,...
The Brown-McDade deposit was the first vein system discovered in the Mount Nansen camp and has produced approximately 34,000 ounces (1058 kg) of gold and 131,000 ounces (4,075...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Age and setting of dinosaur trackways, Ross River area, Yukon Territory (105F/15)
Chert-bearing clastic strata are a common component of Jurassic and younger terrestrial sequences in the Yukon. The discovery of dinosaur trackways in a small inlier of chert-...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Alteration and zonation in the Kalzas W-Sn-Mo Porphyry-vein deposit, 105 M/7, Yukon
The Kalzas W-Sn-Mo deposit is located in central Yukon, 282 km north of Whitehorse on the northern side of Big Kalzas Lake. Wolframite-molybdenite-cassiterite mineralization...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Sedimentology of White Channel Placer Deposits, Klondike, West Central Yukon
The White Channel placer deposit in the Klondike area is a Pliocene to early Pleistocene braid plain sequence with tributary alluvial fan and gravity flow deposits. Lithofacies...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Ag-Pb-Zn Mineralization in the MM Deposit and associated Mississippian...
A sequence of Mississippian felsic volcanic rocks up to 600 m thick occurs in the St. Cyr Range of the Pelly Mountains. The volcanic rocks occur in a belt 80 km long and up to...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
A Pliensbachian submarine slope and conglomeratic gully-fill succession:...
The diachronous Richthofen-Conglomerate Formation transition separates lithostratigraphic subunits of the Jurassic Laberge Group, Whitehorse Trough. The contact is superbly...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML -
Assisted revegetation of fine-grained tailings at Whitehorse Copper Mine: A...
Whitehorse Copper Mine, within the city limits of Whitehorse, produced about 10 million tons of fine-grained calc-silicate tailings before its closure in 1982. The tailings, now...Date updated: 2011-04-04Date created: 2011-04-04Publisher: Yukon Geological SurveyFormat: HTML